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Grades K-2 - Transportation
  • Students will start with the familiar, transportation today, and then examine photographs to compare how transportation has changed or stayed the same.
Grade 3 - Geography
  • Geographic features of Southern California and the interplay between these features and human behavior.
Grade 4 - Dust Bowl
  • Students will explore the factors involved in the migration of nearly 300,000 people to California in the 1930's.
Grade 5 - American Revolution
  • The role of religion in the era of the revolution.
Grade 5 - Exploration
  • Where did European explorers travel, how did they interact with American Indians, and how did Europeans represent the New World to other Europeans?
Grade 5 - Jamestown
  • Analyzing the Jamestown colony through the initial settlers, their struggle to survive, location, conflicts, and natural resources.
Grades 5 & 8 - Constitution
  • Analysis of a primary set of documents related to the Constitution produced by The Library of Congress.
Grade 6 - Cuneiform
  • Allows students to think critically about writing and how it has changed over time.
Grade 7 - European Explorers
  • Native perspective of Europeans conquest of the Americas.
Grade 8 - North American Assimilation
  • Examines the lives of Native Americans, how they dressed, academic and non-academic expectations, and how federal education policy imposed on Native their lives.
Grades 8 & 11 - Immigration
  • Set of primary sources for students to use to examine immigration challenges for new Americans.
Grades 8 & 11 - Jim Crow
  • How the Jim Crow laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries impacted the lives of African Americans.
Grades 8 & 11 - Women's Suffrage
  • A primary source set that attempts to portray perspectives for and against women's suffrage and spark discussions about making choices.
Grade 10 - Russian Archives
  • Students will look at a variety of sources relating to the Stalin era and explore communist policies during this time.